Was the Game Boy Color a successor to the original Game Boy?

[S.Peelman]

Ganoncrotch said:

S.Peelman said:

6, plus a couple hundred digital ones, those are always forgotten.

Besides, what's the cut-off point then? 1 exclusive? 5 exclusives? 10? 100? The type of game doesn't matter either, there's Gameboy Color games that couldn't run on normal Gameboy, but Xenoblade can't run on normal 3DS either, so again; where's the line? Call one of them seperate generations, then call of them that. And again, Nintendo doesn't do that themselves with any of them.

But do you think that the GBA was the same generation then as the original Gameboy? because it could play all of the GB/GBC titles but it also had its own software line? Again that system doubles the CPU clock from 8mhz up to 16mhz and had 7 times the memory in place of the GBC.

See having backwards compatibility with the older gen 4 hardware of the Gameboy line shouldn't make you think the Gameboy color isn't a 5th generation machine, or that the GBA isn't a 6th gen one. Just because the shape of the plastic casing changes between the GBC and GBA the software/hardware upgrade which happened there is the exact same.

Who says anything about the GBA? Nintendo pretty clearly presented, and still presents, that as a new generation. Seperate from the other GameBoy line.

But, why not answer my questions? Where is that line then? Why is one this and the other that? Why not make a rulebook with some, objective, guidelines on what counts as a new generation and what not. Some definite, numerical boundaries along with argumentation and why those apply to the GBC, DSi or n3DS in various ways. And while you're at it, apply those new rules to hardware from other companies as well, like with the PSPGo or now the Neo. Are those GameBoy Colors, GameBoy Advances or DSi's or are they all the same?